A 2015 mural in the Monserrat neighborhood by Jorge Rodriquez Gerada depicts a realistic face of a boy. The mural titled ‘David’ is located at Tacuari and Venezuela streets, above a new parking lot, where an empty lot sat for many years. Take the Buenos Aires Graffiti Tour to find out about Buenos Aires street […]

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner supporter’s head to the Plaza de Mayo at mid-afternoon in anticipation of her last presidential address and informal address to the crowd from the Casa Rosada. As the plaza began to fill with tens of thousands of people all afternoon, the president inaugurated the bust of former president Néstor Kirchner in […]

Girls dance with a light post among their friends at the National School of Buenos Aires (Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires) as they celebrate the last day of school. The teens paint their faces in an end-of-the-school-year tradition and get together to dance, socialize and, in some cases, make out before saying goodbye for summer. Only […]

A group from the La Cámpora political youth group celebrate on election day, 2015 before the votes were completely counted. Although their chants celebrate Juan Domingo Péron, Néstor Kirchner and outgoing President Cristina Kirchner, they were celebrating a presumed win by Daniel Scioli. In Argentina 45% of the vote — or least 40% with a […]

Flowers on a pushcart in Buenos Aires demonstrate that spring has sprung. Argentina celebrates the spring season on the 21st of September, although the actual vernal equinox is a day or two later. Since 1902, the date September 21 also marks El Día del Estudiante (Student’s Day) making this date — and in fact the […]